Learning disabilities

just get by on their own. She struggles in school to the point where one of Teachers believe she needs to be held back. Her mother doesn’t know how to communicate with the school, dentists, etc. Maybe she doesn’t know the extent of Wendy’s learning disability and what it in entails. There was a boy who pulled Wendy’s hair, and the parents told her to hit the kid while the teacher wasn’t looking. This isn’t the most effective way to go about it, as the approach is doesn’t solve the root problem…

Dyslexia is an unrecognizable problem in many students, because people have a hard time recognizing the symptoms associated with dyslexia. Students, especially in middle school, are then classified as being lazy and difficult by their teachers. Learning is hard on any student who has a hard time reading and writing. People have agreed that if students of normal intelligence have not mastered reading and writing by the third grade, this is evidence that older students have dyslexia. The…

Word Drills on Reading Fluency for Students with Intellectual Disabilities Jonae Alexander Concordia University A Research Report Presented to The Graduate Program in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Masters in Education Concordia University - Portland January 2015 Review of the Literature This paper focuses on the impact of sight word trials on reading fluency of students with learning disabilities. More specifically, this paper focuses on the certain types…

Finding out your child has a learning disability can be a very tough thing to handle. But having a learning disability is very common in children ages three to twenty one. A LD or Learning disability is a neurological condition that affects the affects the brain depending on which disorder you have. Over two million children have a learning disability and the most common is dyslexia. Dyslexia is a condition that alters the way the brain measures reading comprehension, writing, spelling, and…

doing” (Jody Sherman, 2006, para. 3). Children and adults naturally learn by hands on activities. Due to the increased amount of information being taught in the strict time set, these hands-on activities are being cut from the learning programs. “So-called psychiatric learning disorders are an effort to “medicalize” failures to instruct…

Burns, M. K. (2007). Reading at the instructional level with children identified as learning disabled: Potential implications for response-to-intervention. School Psychology Quarterly, 22(3), 297-313. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/1045-3830.22.3.297 The purpose of the article was to explain what Response to Intervention is and how it works. Curriculum Based Assessment and Curriculum Based Measurement is useful to Response to Intervention because it can help identify students who are in need of…

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There are many misconceptions about dyslexia. Dyslexia is not a result of low intelligence but a learning disorder characterized by difficulty with reading or writing (UXL). Nelson Rockefeller accepted the fact that he had a problem and refused to feel sorry for himself. People with dyslexia are called “dyslexics” (Moragne 17). Dyslexics have a tendency to confuse certain letters such as “b” and “d” (UXL). They also have trouble connecting letters with their sounds, distinguishing whether…

Writing Disability Simulation Simulating to suffer Dysgraphia was actually harder than expected. Not only did I learn that Dysgraphia is a condition that causes trouble with written expressions, but also I got to understand how hard and frustrating it is to deal with this problem for children who suffer this disorder. Moreover, when a child has to deal with the same problem day after day, he or she may be called lazy, or dumb; as a result, he or she gets frustrated. However, if a child has not…

bad. I think each person needs to be evaluated to see how a person learns. There are three types of ways that could hinder learning. The first is a learning disability called dyslexia. Then second there are visual learners. And last they are people who have test anxiety. First there is dyslexia. Many people are faced with a disability which can hinder their learning. Some people have dyslexia which a person knows the answer but has trouble putting it down on paper. They either put their…